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«I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.»
«Getting a standing ovation was kind of humbling that so many people are so happy that I have been named for this award. A lot of people say you're due - maybe you are, maybe you aren't - it's an accolade.»
Author: Morgan Freeman
(Actor, Producer)
| Keywords:
accolade, award, humbling, ovation, ovations, standing ovation
«At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents»
Author: Bob Hope
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, Academy Awards, actresses, agents, award, besides, dinners, Hollywood, press agent, The academy
«I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.»
«Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.»
«He [President Bush] is probably choking on a pretzel or something. I hope nobody tells him that I have won this award while he is eating a pretzel. ... He has the funniest lines in the film. I am eternally grateful to him.»
Author: Michael Moore
(Author, Film Director)
| Keywords:
award, choking, eternally, funniest, lines, President Bush, pretzel
«I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.»
«In the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the crippled, of the homeless, of the blind, in their name, I accept the award.»
«And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying,
Suffering,
Truth
| Keywords:
abide, abide by, award, condemned, condemned to death, depart, penalty, villainy
«I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agony, award, awarded, awarding, least of all, materials, profit, sweat, The Agony and, work in
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